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Berlitz Swedish Phrase Book


by Inc. Berlitz International

  • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
  • 2008
  • AUDIO CD
  • 224 PAGES

With a focus on the traveler, this combination 90-minute CD and pocket phrasebook will help you learn basic vocabulary. (SWE50, $14.95)

Blackwater


by Kerstin Ekman

  • LITERATURE
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES

The suspicious death of an artist sends Police Constable Torsson skiing north to the remote Lapland village of Rakisjok to investigate, and there he encounters a frozen wall of resistance from the townspeople. (SWE38, $18.00)

Blue Guide Sweden


by Blue Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

A compact guide to Sweden with a focus on art and architecture. This revised edition includes practical information, city and site plans and a color map. (SWE28, $26.95)

Carl Larsson, The Autobiography of Sweden's Most Beloved Artist


by Carl Lasson

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1992
  • PAPER
  • 206 PAGES

Stories of Larsson's childhood and artistic life in his own words. (SWE25, $17.00)

City Flash Stockholm


by Hallwag

  • MAP

A detailed, laminated map of Stockholm with major attractions and public transportation routes clearly indicated. (SWE17, $6.95)

Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe

Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe


by Glynis Ridley

  • HISTORY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 240 PAGES

The entertaining history of an Indian rhinoceros named Clara, who was brought to Europe in 1741 by a Dutch sea captain and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of several heads of state. (FRN536, $12.00)

Culture Shock! Sweden


by Charlotte Rosen Svensson

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

A practical guide to Swedish customs, etiquette and culture, of equal interest to the business traveler, casual visitor or resident. (SWE74, $15.95)

Egil's Saga

Egil's Saga


by Bernard Scudder | Svanhildur Oskarsdottir

  • LITERATURE
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 254 PAGES

This chronicle of war and rivaly between ruling clans, written in the 13th century, blends history and legend. It's a vivid portrait of the Viking world. The action is set in 10th-century southern Scandinavia, the Baltic, Iceland and the North Sea. (VIK06, $16.00)

Faceless Killers

Faceless Killers


by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 369 PAGES

When a elderly couple is murdered in the Swedish countryside outside of Malmo, evidence points towards the immigrant community. Ystad Inspector Kurt Wallander must solve the murder before anti-immigrant tensions explode. First in the blockbuster series. (SWE66, $7.99)

The Fifth Woman

The Fifth Woman


by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 608 PAGES

Inspector Kurt Wallander may have a murderous avenging angel on his hands in the sixth novel of the popular Swedish mystery series. (SWE70, $15.00)

Firewall

Firewall


by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 416 PAGES

This eighth mystery pits Wallander against a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. (SWE72, $14.95)

Fodor's Sweden


by

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

A practical guide in the popular series, saturated with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and dining. (SWE48, $18.95)

Frommer's Sweden


by Darwin Porter

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER

A comprehensive, practical guide to the region with excellent recommendations for hotels, restaurants and excursions. With two-color maps throughout. (SWE55, $21.99)

The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral

The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral


by Robert A. Scott

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 294 PAGES

An enthusiast, Scott presents history, design, architecture and wonder of the medieval cathedral and the great Abbey churches. (EUR190, $21.95)

A Hedonist's Guide to Stockholm

A Hedonist's Guide to Stockholm


by Stephen Whitlock

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2008
  • HARD COVER
  • 157 PAGES

A slick, stylish guide to Stockholm highlighting the city's most decadent and fashionable spots. From the sophisticated Hedonist Guide series with well-photographed restaurants, clubs and bars and limited sightseeing information. (SWE44, $29.65)

Here Is Where We Meet

Here Is Where We Meet


by John Berger

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow. (EUR189, $15.00)

A History of the Vikings


by Gwyn Jones

  • HISTORY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 504 PAGES

Jones integrates history and archaeology in this classic portrait of the Vikings. (VIK20, $18.95)

Insight Guide Sweden

Insight Guide Sweden


by Doreen Taylor-Wilkie

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 364 PAGES

A profusely illustrated overview of Sweden, featuring concise essays by well regarded authors on history, politics, nature and culture, hundreds of photos and maps, and some limited practical information. (SWE12, $23.95)

Knopf Mapguide Stockholm


by Knopf Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 48 PAGES

A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps. (SWE37, $10.95)

Lapland, A Natural History

Lapland, A Natural History


by Derek Ratcliffe

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2006
  • HARD COVER
  • 320 PAGES

An authoritative, indispensable overview of the birds, plants, habitats and wildlife of the northern regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland and northwestern Russia. (ARC182, $70.00)

Lonely Planet Scandinavian Europe

Lonely Planet Scandinavian Europe


by Glenda Bendure | Ned Friary

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 550 PAGES

An excellent practical guide to Scandinavian countries, as well as St. Petersburg and Tallinn, featuring a good overview of culture, history and nature, and plenty of information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. (SCN01, $24.99)

Lonely Planet Stockholm Encounter

Lonely Planet Stockholm Encounter


by Cristian Bonetto

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

This lively shirt pocket guide to the city, jammed with personal recommendations and photographs, also includes a pull-out map. (SWE43, $12.99)

Lonely Planet Sweden

Lonely Planet Sweden


by Becky Ohlsen

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 372 PAGES

A comprehensive guide in the Lonely Planet style featuring 46 maps, background detail on the country and culture -- and practical information for the traveler. (SWE51, $22.99)

Mammals of Europe

Mammals of Europe


by Priscilla Barrett | David W. MacDonald

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

Published by Princeton, this is a field guide to land and marine mammals throughout Europe, both endemic and introduced. With more than 600 color illustrations of over 200 mammals. (FG61, $38.50)

The Man from Beijing

The Man from Beijing


by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, they uncover a crime unprecedented in Swedish history. (SWE64, $15.00)

The Man Who Smiled

The Man Who Smiled


by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 325 PAGES

In the fourth book, Kurt Wallander chases a killer targeting lawyers in Malmo, Sweden. The investigation leads the Ystad inspector to a prime suspect: a powerful corporate mogul whose smile masks the face of a killer. (SWE68, $15.00)

MapEasy's Guide to Sweden

MapEasy's Guide to Sweden


by Chris Harris

  • 1999
  • MAP

A tear-resistant, waterproof map of Sweden, with a detailed inset of Stockholm on the flip side (SWE15, $7.95)

Michelin Green Guide Scandinavia and Finland

Michelin Green Guide Scandinavia and Finland


by Michelin Travel Publications

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 526 PAGES

A thorough guide to Scandinavia in the classic Michelin style. (SCN10, $21.95)

Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination, Swedish Art of the 1890s


by Michelle Facos

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 1998
  • HARD COVER
  • 250 PAGES

A handsome study of Swedish National Romanticism of the 1890's. (SWE24, $70.00)

Never End


by Ake Edwardson

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • HARD COVER

An installment in the popular Erik Winter series, the book follows a series of unsolved rape-murders that Winter must race to solve in Gothenburg, Sweden.. (SWE42, $24.95)

One Step Behind

One Step Behind


by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES

It's Midsummer's Eve in this seventh mystery and Inspector Kurt Wallander suspects that a series of gruesome murders around Ystad are connected. But how? (SWE71, $15.00)

Orkneyinga Saga, The History of the Earls of Orkney

Orkneyinga Saga, The History of the Earls of Orkney


by Hermann Palssom | Paul Edwards

  • LITERATURE
  • 1981
  • PAPER
  • 253 PAGES

A fusion of myth and legend, circa A.D. 1200, by an unnamed Icelandic author. The medieval chronicle has its center of action among the Orkney Islands, describing their conquest by Norwegian kings during the Viking expansion of the ninth century. (VIK07, $16.00)

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings


by Peter Sawyer

  • HISTORY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 298 PAGES

An insightful overview of the Viking Age in Norway and abroad, illustrated throughout and featuring essays by 12 experts. (VIK18, $27.99)

The Pyramid, The First Wallander Cases

The Pyramid, The First Wallander Cases


by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 392 PAGES

Mankell sheds light on Swedish police inspector Kurt Wallander's back-story in this collection of five short stories set at key moments in Wallander's life. (SWE73, $15.00)

Seven Viking Romances


by Hermann Palssom | Paul Edwards

  • ANTHOLOGY
  • 1985
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

Entertaining sagas telling of Viking kings, adventurers and gods. (VIK04, $15.00)

Sidetracked

Sidetracked


by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 432 PAGES

Wallander faces his greatest challenge yet in this fifth haunting novel, largest set in and around the detective's home base in Ystad. (SWE69, $15.00)

Stockholm Pocket Guide

Stockholm Pocket Guide


by Berlitz Pocket Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 144 PAGES

As advertised, this brief, illustrated guide to the city fits easily into a shirt pocket. It's a brief guide covering what to see and do in Stockholm -- with a convenient map of the city center. (SWE01, $8.95)

Stockholm Series 2: Children of Their City


by Pers Anders Fogelstrom

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

Fogelstrom follows the intertwined destinies of Henning Nilsson's children against a fully realized backdrop of late 19th-century Stockholm in this second novel in his beloved series, following City of My Dreams (SWE22). One of the most widely read novels in Sweden, Fogelstroms's statue stands at the entrance to the hall where the Nobel Prizes are awarded. Berman made Summer with Monika into a film. (SWE52, $18.95)

The Thirty Years' War


by Geoffrey Parker

  • HISTORY
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 316 PAGES

A scholarly history of the major European conflict of the 17th century. Among the outcomes were the annexation of Alsace by France, the annexation of Pomerania by Sweden and the legalization of Calvinism in Germany. (EUR115, $39.95)

Time Out Stockholm

Time Out Stockholm


by Time Out

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

An up-to-date guide on what to do and where to go by the people who publish Time Out Magazine. (SWE36, $19.95)

The Troubled Man

The Troubled Man


by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 384 PAGES

Last in the wildly popular series. Brooding detective Kurt Wallander (star of The Dogs of Riga) may be in over his head investigating the disappearance of his daughter's father-in-law to be, a former Swedish naval officer, in this darkly atmospheric whodunit set in and around Stockholm. Though Kenneth Branagh stars in the award-winning BBC series (there's a new installment in the works), Wallander is as Swedish as they come, rather the antithesis of James Bond -- vulnerable, lonely, feeling his age. But a crack detective all the same. (SWE63, $26.95)

The Vikings, A Very Short Introduction


by Julian D. Richards

  • HISTORY
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 152 PAGES

This slim volume is a stimulating, concise introduction to the Vikings. (VIK24, $14.99)

Wallpaper City Guide Stockholm

Wallpaper City Guide Stockholm


by Wallpaper Magazine

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2012
  • PAPER

A stylish, thin (it fits in your back pocket) city guide compiled by the design magazine Wallpaper's local reporters. Well-organized, with chapter tabs, many photographs and of-the-moment recommendations. (SWE35, $9.95)

The White Lioness

The White Lioness


by Henning Mankell

  • MYSTERY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES

The murder of a Swedish housewife in tranquil southern Sweden is much more complicated and dangerous than it initially appears in this third novel, in which Wallander must grapple with both the secret police and a South African agent. (SWE67, $15.00)

A Year in Lapland, Guest of the Reindeer Herders

A Year in Lapland, Guest of the Reindeer Herders


by Hugo Beach

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 242 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

An account of a year among the Saami in Swedish Lapland. An anthropologist by training, the author combines travelogue, history and meditation on the cycle of life in the north. (SCN12, $26.95)

 

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